DATE: May 07, 2008

CONTACT: Richard Dull, (864) 656-0610
rdull@clemson.edu

WRITER: Teresa C. Hopkins, (864) 656-1222
hopkin1@clemson.edu

Clemson accounting professor receives Fulbright award

CLEMSON – Richard Dull, an associate professor of accounting at Clemson University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and research at the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Dull will study strategies to improve learning in accounting classrooms. He plans to work to increase students’ repertoire of cognitive learning tools and measure students’ awareness of their learning methods. While in Croatia, Dull also will teach accounting for non-accounting majors. The course will include extensive technology examples as well as ways to use an accounting system to detect fraud.

“The University of Dubrovnik is a relatively new university in a very old city,” Dull said. “I am looking forward to expanding an existing project on how students learn, as well as working with new colleagues in Croatia. Also, the grant provides an excellent opportunity for my family and me to become immersed in the culture of Croatia.”

Dull will spend the fall 2008 semester in Croatia along with his wife, Susan, their daughters, Teodora and Monica, and dog, Champ.

Dull is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty members and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

Dull is the Charles D. and Katrina M. Way Faculty Fellow. In this role he helped develop and maintains an ERP (enterprise resource planning) simulation to use in accounting classes. The simulation allows students to create reports and work with accounting data being generated from a real-time simulated production cycle. Along with Clemson management professor Larry LaForge, Dull received Microsoft's Pinnacle Award for innovation in the adaptation of software for instructional use.

Dull came to Clemson in 2001 after teaching at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis. He has 11 years' experience in public accounting and systems consulting. He has published in journals including Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems and Accounting Education: an International Journal. He also is a co-author of a leading accounting information systems textbook.

Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people: 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have come to the United States. The program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide.   

For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, go to http://exchanges.state.gov or contact Heidi Manley, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, (202) 453-8534, or e-mail academic@state.gov.

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